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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:32PM (#32655404)
> Marshall Plan was about economic investment. The transition from communism to capitalism was a very rough one for the Soviet people, and that's a big part of why democracy failed.

It was also about stabilising a war-torn continent’s economy. To keep them from going communist.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by munk-a on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:37PM (#32655460)
And it would've made a lot of sense to re-apply it here since Russia has clearly gone in a strongly authoritarian direction and is invading its neighbors. It's a pretty clear example of a destabilizing actor in the region.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by gernb on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:23AM (#32658684)
How would you have applied it? Japan surrendered so they had a lot less say in how things where handled. No such thing happened with the USSR/Russia.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:01PM (#32656287)
> it would've made a lot of sense to re-apply it here

Absolutely agree with you. Long-term, I think the stable state for Russia is a deconstruction of the old empire and a global commitment to Marshall Plan the resulting republics into modernity.

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